Chapter 71: Jealous
Within ten minutes after the end of the show, the hashtag #childyou’replayingwithyourlife# immediately took a roller coaster ride and quickly rose to the top of the hot search list.
Every time the page was refreshed, it popped up in a few places on the hot search list, and after half an hour, six of the top ten on the hot search list were occupied by Wilderness Winner.
Su Jishi didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. She had no memory of this conversation with Qin Qiu, and she really didn’t notice the night camera erected next to them. The two sat by the campfire for ten minutes, and silently warmed themselves by the fire almost throughout. The words they exchanged could be counted on one hand. Who would have thought that after the post-editing, these pick-up lines actually became the source of hilarity.
Whether it was posts, forums or the Douban Eight Group((Now renamed Douban Goose Group – a famous gossip center with a large number of members (700,000). They’re rich in gossip information, fast updates, and digging into celebrity black materials)), related discussion posts popped strings after strings.
Each contained, “Hahahahahahahahahaha” upon clicking.
[Click on the video to harvest happiness, the young and handsome idol routine failed and overturned, F*ck]
[A hammer fixed the landscape, respect for Su Jin.]
[After catching up with this episode, I was in a trance when I found myself distracted in writing group homework several times]
[At first, I thought Su Jin was the strongest sovereign, but later I found out that she is the Wild Land BOSS((野图BOSS-Wild Land Boss – a game terminology??(￣ー￣；))]
The star chasing slang of the melon-eaters emerged endlessly. Su Jishi couldn’t understand it. She could only vaguely guess that the show was on fire.
Exactly, Wilderness Winner was indeed on fire.
The ratings of the first episode exceeded 1.5%, and the audience share exceeded 6%. As the first variety show that started the year on Apple Channel, it was already bagged this year’s annual variety show championship. As long as the quality of the show didn’t collapse on later stages, the ratings of this program could definitely break 3%!
The program group rode the wave of success and released another extended version of the behind-the-scenes footage on their official website.
Out of the consideration of ‘increasing the topic of conversation’, the program team specially released a few clips of Su Jin and Qin Qiu getting along in the extended footage.
To put it simply, Su Jin ‘bravely charged to the end of the world’ in front, while Qin Qiu followed her every step of the way. The young man offered to help several times, but before he could complete one thing, Su Jin had easily done everything.
In fact, in the seven days of recording, Su Jishi and Chen Gangyu most often stayed in one phase to complete the missions. But the editors were quite skilled. They picked out all Su Jishi and Qin Qiu’s same frame clips within the seven days, and collated such ‘high sugar’ ‘too sweet’ interactions.
The day after the release of the footage, ‘Play with Fire CP’ became the third most popular CP on Weibo!
Su Jishi was baffled: “What is this Play with Fire CP?”
Xiao Xia answered nervously, “It’s the CP between you and Qin Qiu, Sister Su…”
Su Jishi’s eyes widened and asked incredulously, “Me? And Qin Qiu? What are they fanning about? Fanning our ‘mother-son love’?”
Xiao Xia: “Sister Su, you do not understand! Nowadays, the domineering president is in love with me has long ceased in popularity. Everyone is now turning to domineering royal sister with a younger man. Although Qin Qiu seems silly to you, the way he circles around you is more like a clumsy little puppy who wants to please his master.”
Su Jishi had never owned a dog, but she usually enjoyed scrolling and pouring love on pet videos on video sites.
She substituted Qin Qiu’s image into a husky puppy, an Alaskan puppy, and a Samoyed puppy, and after solemn reflection, she decided that if someday she wanted to have a dog in the future, she must have it spayed or neutered first.
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A week later, the second episode of Wilderness Winner went live under much anticipation.
Before the show started, some industry marketing accounts vowed and predicted that this issue would definitely break through 2%. It had never occurred to them, however, that the real situation would far exceed their expectations!
Half an hour into the broadcast, CSM’s ratings in 48 major cities exceeded 2.5%, and the viewership share reached a staggering double-digit number!
The concept of viewership share referred to the percentage of TV viewers watching the program, as compared to all TV viewers nationwide.
In layman’s terms, that meant one out of every ten TV sets was showing Wilderness Winner!
On top of that, many more viewers were watching the show via live network TV. By the time the recorded program went online on the official website the next day, the number of hits exceeded 100 million in 24 hours, with more than hundreds of thousands of comments.
For a while, almost every corner of the street was abuzzed with this variety show and the five artists who appeared in it. Su Jin was definitely the most impressive one in the group of five.
Before the show was released, who would have thought that the popular traffic starlet would show such skilled wilderness survival skills? In front of the camera, Su Jin was valiant, speedy, unpretentious, and invincible. On top of that, her handling of the small and delicate hammer was extraordinarily smooth.
It got the audience talking —— What is the origin of such a good hammer?
Soon, a blogger named @sujin’ssmallcloset, who mimicked celebrity fashion styles, screen captured her magical find of the hammer information.
Netizens then learned that what Su Jin held in her hand wasn’t an ordinary hardware hammer, but a rare geological hammer!
This hammer was produced by the most famous hardware manufacturer in Canada. Besides the geological hammer, they also offered a series of ‘hardcore’ products, such as geological pick, outdoor axe and shovel.
Some merchants were clever enough to engage in proxy shopping. When searching for Su Jin merch on a shopping app, the first thing that popped out was no longer her clothes, bags, shoes and jewelry, but the hammer that made a big splash!
After all, Su Jin said in the show —— “How can a man be as reliable as a hammer?”
Other female celebrities ‘brought goods’ such as cosmetics and skin care products. Su Jin, on the contrary, brought an actual hammer.
In just a few days, the hardware tool manufacturer in Canada found that orders from China had soard to an astronomical number, causing the company owner to ask on Facebook what was happening.
An overseas student translated the ins and outs of the story to him, but this only made the boss even more curious —— “A Chinese actress used our company’s hammer in a variety show? So that’s why within a few days, orders from China soared close to six figures. How amazing!”
This wonderful conversation soon spread on foreign social networking sites. The melon-eaters of this world had exactly the same gossiping hearts no matter what color they were.
Everyone wanted to know who this Chinese actress was and what kind of a show it was. What charm did she possess, enough to drive the Chinese audience so crazy?
Luckily, the show was not only available on the Apple Channel in China, but also on Discovery Channel Asia. Regardless of your location on the planet, as long as you have access to the Internet, you could pay to watch it. For the convenience of overseas viewers, it was also released with English subtitles.
So, while Su Jishi was completely unaware, tens of thousands of overseas viewers clicked on the homepage of the Discovery Channel and began to enjoy the well-produced outdoor variety show. Intense and exciting survival links, matching combinations of handsome men and women, post editing entertainment finesse, and romantic or thrilling visual effects…these combinations were a big hit with foreigners who were watching Asian variety shows for the first time.
Along with the international spread, ‘memes’ made by domestic audiences for the show also became viral at the same time!
One of the most interesting memes was of Qin Qiu holding a hammer with a bewildered face together with the following caption: [Jinjin, who do you choose between me and the hammer?]
Su Jishi: “…Thanks for the invitation, I choose to be single.”
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Peek-Aboo 
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